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Simon Lincoln Reader draws comparisons between Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla apology and the Brexit ‘No Confidence’ vote. Both seemingly non-events.
If the historic comparisons bore you, stick around for some unassailable facts pointing to an incipient Groot Trek of capital from our shores.
The biggest lesson other business leaders will take from Johann Rupert’s bruising is to keep quiet and stay on the sidelines.
Jeremy Corbyn gets a roasting from Simon this week as our erudite London columnist shares the experiences of an active week.
Johann Rupert, South Africa’s second-richest man with a $6.3bn fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apartheid.
And at the luxury end, JSE-listed Richemont is proving its millions of well-heeled customers are also comfortable in cyberspace.
70 residents of the Karoo town of Aberdeen walked into a presentation hall as tenants and out as home owners, with full freehold title made possible by businessman Johann Rupert and his wife Gaynor.
Richemont chairman Johann Rupert is giving more control to longtime company insider Jerome Lambert as part of a gradual changing of the guard at the Swiss luxury-goods maker.
Johann Rupert has promoted a plan that will see up to R10bn in Reinet shares being bought by the company in the open market.
Reinet’s share buyback scheme is intended to protect small shareholders from the 40% discount. Chairman Johann Rupert’s inspiration came from an unlikely source.